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Daily Dish: 10/11/2012

A bridge in the Bahamas is being renamed to honor Sidney Poitier, who spent part of his childhood in the island chain east of Florida.

Prime Minister Perry Christie says the Paradise Island Bridge will be rechristened as part of next month's 40th anniversary celebration of Bahamian independence. Christie says the 88-year-old film star is being honored because of his life story and diplomacy. Poitier has been Bahamian ambassador to Japan and UNESCO.

The Oscar-winning Poitier was born in the United States but spent much of his childhood on Cat Island, a sparsely populated island in the central Bahamas.

The Paradise Island Bridge is the largest in the Bahamas. It connects the capital to the Atlantis resort, one of the region's main tourist destinations. The renaming was announced Tuesday.

Bieber anti-cyberbullying video ends NY legal case

A New York prosecutor has released a new anti-cyberbullying video by Justin Bieber.

The pop star recorded the public service announcement as part of a deal that resolved misdemeanor charges against one of his managers and a record executive.

In 2009, a frenzy began at a Long Island mall when more than 3,000 excited girls turned up to see Bieber sign autographs.

Police ordered the event cancelled over safety concerns and Bieber never appeared at the mall.

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice says Bieber made the video in the deal that dropped charges against Braun and Roppo.

The record company and a management company admitted to fire-code violations.

Sarah Brightman books flight to space

Sarah Brightman, the world's biggest selling soprano, says she has booked a trip to the International Space Station.

Brightman, who had a hit in 1978 with "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper," will become the first recording artist in space.

The British singer said Wednesday that after touring the world in 2013 for her new album, Dreamchaser, she will spend six months in Russia's Star City cosmonaut training center.

Brightman, a UNESCO ambassador, said the trip would also serve as a way to promote the U.N. agency's message, in particular by encouraging women's education in the sciences and environmental awareness. She hinted at the possibility of doing a promotional "space concert."

Brightman teamed up with the private company Space Adventures that organizes trips for private space explorers.

'Breakfast at Tiffany's' aims for Broadway in 2013

There's a fresh push to get Holly Golightly onto a Broadway stage.

Producers said Wednesday that a new adaptation of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is aiming for a Shubert theater in New York City in February 2013. It will be directed by Sean Mathias.

The new stage adaption of Truman Capote's classic 1958 novella will star Emilia Clarke of HBO's "Game of Thrones" as the eccentric party girl Golightly, a role Audrey Hepburn played in the 1961 movie.

Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg will pen the book. His other plays include "Take Me Out" and "Three Days of Rain."

A stage version was first attempted in 1966 but was shuttered after just four previews. That version had a book adapted by Edward Albee and songs by Bob Merrill.

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